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quillets

quillets is the plural of quillet.

Meaning of quillet

Noun (1)

quillet (plural quillets)

  1. A quibble, an evasive distinction.
    • There’s another : why might not that bee the Scull of a Lawyer ? where be his Quiddits now ? his Quillets ? his Caſes ? his Tenures, and his Tricks ? why doe’s he ſuffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about the Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his Action of Battery ? hum.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Noun (2)

quillet (plural quillets)

  1. (regional) A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.
    • The single and only [Royal Wilding apple] tree from which the apple was first propagated is very tall, fair, and stout ; I believe it stands about twenty feet high. It stands in a very little quillet (as we call it) of gardening, adjoining to the post-road that leads from Exeter to Oakhampton, in...1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, “Hugh Stafford and the Royal Wilding”, in Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, London: John Lane, page 7
    Synonyms:
    croft

Questions about quillets

What is quillets the plural of?
Quillets is the plural of quillet.

Words near quillets in the dictionary

  1. Quillens
  2. quiller
  3. quillers
  4. quillet
  5. quilleted
  6. quillets
  7. Quilley
  8. quillfish
  9. quillfishes
  10. Quilliam
  11. Quillian

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